Kerberos 5, kprop problem

Ken Hornstein kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue Apr 16 11:36:01 EDT 2002


>'abel' is the main server, it has a cname of 'kerberos'.  'weber' is one
>of the secondaries, cname kerberos-2.
>
>For some reason its trying to find the canonical hostname of the
>machine.  The installation manual said it should work with CNAMES..

I think you misread the manual.  In Kerberos you always want to use the
canonical name (and the "short" name isn't a CNAME in any case, unless
you placed the CNAME record at the root of the DNS).

--Ken



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